{"product_id":"transylvania-to-tunbridge-wells-9781919309828","title":"Transylvania to Tunbridge Wells","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Transylvania to Tunbridge Wells: The Original Manuscript\u003c\/strong\u003e restores Nicholas de Vere's working voice-sharp, sardonic, and meticulously sourced-exactly as readers remember it. Moving fluidly from Central-European folklore to English parish memory, de Vere follows the long threads of lineage, heraldry, and mythic kingship to ask a hard question that official histories often avoid: \u003cem\u003ehow do families and kingdoms manufacture memory-and what power does that memory hold?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a tidy textbook assembled after the fact. It is the author's laboratory notebook: citations in the margins, cross-references to charters and brasses, side-glances at ballads and legend, and sudden flashes of humour that break the tension without blunting the argument. De Vere's method is simple and bracing-lay out the fragments (names, seals, devices, landholding patterns, funerary art, stray local traditions), test their fit, and keep only what survives the pressure. The result is a lively, field-ready history that treats readers as collaborators rather than spectators.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis \u003cstrong\u003eOriginal Manuscript edition\u003c\/strong\u003e presents de Vere's material as he left it-lightly edited for clarity, carefully annotated, and framed with contextual notes-so the pace, bite, and mischief remain intact. A long central sequence pursues connections between continental nobiliary traditions and British lines, while later sections sink into the particulars of towns, churches, and families around Kent and Sussex-Tunbridge Wells, parish by parish, inscription by inscription. Everywhere, the emphasis is on \u003cem\u003ehow history is made\u003c\/em\u003e: how stories travel, why symbols repeat, where archives resist, and where living memory refuses to die.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders who come for dragons will find them-dragons as signs, dynastic metaphors, and boundary-markers in the medieval imagination. Readers who come for documents will find those as well: printed transcriptions, references to peerage volumes, county histories, and museum holdings, and a working bibliography that maps where the author stood in the stacks. De Vere is learned and playful in equal measure-wickedly witty, sometimes sarcastic as hell, always with a wink, a nudge, and a grin when he's pulling your leg-yet his demand is serious: \u003cem\u003etest everything; keep what the record can carry\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor genealogists, local historians, medievalists, and general readers who like their history argumentative and alive, \u003cem\u003eFrom Transylvania to Tunbridge Wells\u003c\/em\u003e offers both a destination and a method. It is a record of inquiry in motion and an invitation to keep going: read bravely, document thoroughly, and steward materials so they can stand in the record.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis edition includes: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRestored source trails, marginal notes, and cross-references\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFresh editorial footnotes and context boxes to orient new readers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA concise apparatus explaining de Vere's methodology and key symbols\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClean page design for citation-heavy reading\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eGenealogy enthusiasts; local historians; medieval\/early-modern history readers; folklore and myth readers; researchers interested in lineage, heraldry, and cultural memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dragon Pub.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781919309828\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d","brand":"Nicholas de Vere,Abbe de Vere","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52259648733365,"sku":"9781919309828","price":62.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_19db2fde-65c5-4af6-a81a-f3e81b8a1296.jpg?v=1771342643","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/transylvania-to-tunbridge-wells-9781919309828","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}